These road trip photographs by ck/ck are phenomenal. He took them over the course of 66 day trip across the U.S. and in the process created an amazing body of work. Across America is a wonderful collection of Americana and American landscapes as viewed from a European’s perspective.
Incredible photography by Anthony Crook! He’s worked with clients such as British GQ, Nike, New York Times, Sony Music, and Umbro to name a few.
Rhondal McKinney was raised in southern Illinois during the 1950′s. After working as a brakeman for the railroad, he was pushed into photography and has been creating photographs ever since. His series of Illinois landscapes capture sunrise silhouettes of infinite horizons, ghostly surviving traces of simple living and a calm evoking spirit of some sparse vision from the artist’s adolescence.
“When I was a kid I used to ride around in my father’s pickup truck. He was a bird hunter and a fisherman and we might be on our way to run his nets in the river or driving around looking for quail or pheasant. Usually I didn’t know where we were headed. While we drove around my father chewed tobacco. If a quail ran across the road Dad would pull over, hold his hand against his chest as if to hold back a necktie and spit tobacco juice at the spot where the bird disappeared into the fencerow. The cab of that truck had been so dusty for so long that the dust clung to the dash, the visors, the floor–everywhere–like hide. Pop bottles banged together under the seat. As we drove along gravel roads past fields of clover and alfalfa, corn and wheat, past orchards and pastures and hardwood groves my father’s eyes moved constantly over the landscape. He had a thirst for the look of it. I remember wondering what it was that he was always looking at. Eventually I learned to see what he saw, to love what he loved.”
I really enjoyed these photographs. For some inexact reason, they conjure up something from my past and I think/hope I am not alone with those feelings. These photographs describe a vague place we have all been to. I would like to think that is what McKinney is ultimately going for.
One of our new years resolutions is to post more about studio news and our own work on here, so between this and the new flags we are off to a good start. This stuff is just a set of a few images I shot while in West Texas over the New Years break. The shot above is of a ridge between Study Butte and Alpine. I spent about a half a week in Alpine with my girlfriend. We camped in Big Bend one night, ate at the Gage Hotel in Marathon and spent New Years in Marfa with a couple of the other PUBLIC SCHOOL fellas.
Contemporary artist Ken Cro-Ken produces paintings that appear to be obscure landscapes from other worlds. His experimental mixed media pieces are often created in extreme climates and altitudes. Ken does this in order to raise his sensitivity to nature and heighten his awareness to what he creates…..pretty interesting.
Let’s jump rope!
The internet, it’s open.
Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.
It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.
Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.
Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?
Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.
One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”
One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.
How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?
It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?
While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!
Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.
This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.
Darth Vader blows some hot air.
You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.
That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.
Hey Portland! Cheat Local!
Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.
It’s the cartoon color wheel.
What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?
If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.
Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.
I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.
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